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Sports The Indianapolis Star MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1985 Obituaries 23 PAGE 19 Seaver. Carew reach milestones lorn lerritic wins No. 300 back 'home' JP 9 "WWIP( mm Relieved Rod finally gets hit ASSOCIATED PRESS Anaheim, Calif. When first baseman Rod Carew of the California Angels finally reached 3.000 ca-. reer hits, it came with a sigh of relief.

"I'm glad it's over," said Carew, who slapped a single to left field in the third inning of California's 6 5 victory over the Minnesota Twins Sunday. "It's a great feeling. I didn't want to take it down to Monday with the strike so close." Carew said he'd had a lot of sleepless nights over the past two weeks but knew all along he'd reach 3,000 eventually. "When you've been around 19 years, you're bound to collect a lot of hits. To be mentioned with the Cobbs, Hornsby, Rose and Clemen-te, it's a great feeling for me.

"You hear those names for so many years and then you're right there with those guys. It's a great feeling." During his career, Carew had had a stormy relationship with the media and said that he felt he hadn't gotten the recognition he was due. But teammate Reggie Jackson felt the milestone would change all that for Carew. "They've said he doesn't knock -in runs, he doesn't get the timely hit, but from now on, somewhere in that paragraph, they'll have to mention 3,000 hits. Carew.

39 and in his 19th big league season, reached the milestone when he slapped a 1-1 pitch from Minnesota starter Frank Viola into left field. It was his only hit of the game in five at bats. The Angels scored their third unearned run of the game and broke a 5 5 tie in the eighth when an infield single by Brian Downing scored Gary Pettis, who reached first on an. error by Minnesota second baseman Tim Teufel. Stu Cliburn (31) got the win in relief and Donnie Moore came on in ASSOCIATED PRESS New York It was not, Tom Seavcr finally conceded, just another game.

"My stomach hurt and I had a headache. I talked myself into its being just another game, but deep down in your heart and your stomach you know it's not just another game." Seaver said Sunday after pitching a six hitter all singles and becoming the 17th pitcher in major league history to win 300 games as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees, 41. "It was a very emotional game. -I tried to control my emotions the best I could, but I was extremely nervous. Up to 299 (victories).

I think I did an excellent job but today was like my first day in the big leagues, like pitching opening day in my rookie year. Sometimes the ball felt like a shotput and at other times it felt like a feather." Tim Hulett. Ozzie Guillen and Bryan Little delivered run-scoring hits in the sixth inning when the White Sox, who wasted several earlier chances, scored all their runs and erased a 10 deficit. "I knew we were going to get some runs somewhere. It was just a matter of time," Seaver said.

The three-run lead was more than enough for the 40 year old Seaver. who spent 11' seasons pitching a few miles from Yankee Stadium in the uniform of the New York Mets. When the White Sox started their rally, some fans in the near-capacity crowd of 54.032 began a chant of "Let's Go. Mets." Yankee fans countered with a chorus of boos. Seavcr survived a scare in the ninth when, with Don Pasqua on first with a single and Willie Randolph up.

right fielder Harold Barnes made a leaping catch against the fence for' the second out. Seaver then walked Mike Pagliarulo and ASSOCIATED PRESS California's Rod Carew watches his major league hit take off for left field in the third inning Sunday against Minnesota. UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Tom Seaver gets mobbed by his White Sox teammates after earning his 300th career victory, a 4-1 decision over the Yankees. retired Don Baylor on a fly to' left field for the victory. Seaver pounded his glove happily and then was lifted off the ground by catcher Carlton Fisk as his wife Nancy and two daughters applauded near the Chicago dugout.

Seaver said he "wasn't surprised" that a good portion of the crowd was in his corner. "1 have beautiful memories here (New York)." he said. "I gave the fans in New York some tremendous thrills and they reciprocated. The ovation I got here, in the All Star Game (1977), the ovation when I came back to the Mets in '83. "New York fans are fairlv so phisticated baseball fans and they know what goes on and they know what I've done in 19 years." Seaver walked one and struck out seven, giving him 3.499 in his 19-year career.

He is 12 8 for the season and 300 189 in his career, although only 27 victories have come while pitching for the White Sox, who grabbed him when the Mets failed to protect him in the free-agent compensation draft Jan. 23, 1984. The Yankees' only run off Seaver came in the third inning when Ken Griffey, who played with Seaver on the Cincinnati Reds from 1977 81, singled home Pagliarulo from second. the ninth to record his 21st save. Minnesota reliever Frank Eufemia (3 2) the second of four Minnesota pitchers, suffered the loss.

After Minnesota took a 10 lead in the third on a sacrifice fly by Kirby Puckett. California tied the game on a home run by shortstop Dick Schofield. his eighth, a half-inning later. California added three runs in the fourth, two unearned, on run-scoring singles by Pettis and Bob Boone and a sacrifice fly by Schofield. Minnesota tied the game again in the fifth when Puckett singled with the bases loaded to score two runs and Ron Washington added a sacrifice fly.

Minnesota regained the lead 5-4 in the sixth when Gary Gaetti sin- gled home Mickey Hatcher, who had doubled. 1 California made it 55 in the sixth when Juan Beniquez tripled down the right field line to score 1 George Hendrick, who led off the inning with a walk. Newly-acquired John Cande- laria, in his first start of the season. lasted five innings and allowed four runs on three hits, striking out two and walking three. Candelaria, along with Hendrick and reliever Al Holland, came to the Angels on Friday in a trade with the Pitts- burgh Pirates.

but baseball still stonewalled OOO Angels' 6 5 win over Minnesota, his 3.000th career hit. Players were set to go on strike for the second time in five seasons at the completion of Monday's games. Each side was caucusing late Sunday, presumably to lay strategy for the next 24 hours, but neither could confirm when the next meeting would be held. Both parties said they would consult by telephone either Sunday night or Monday morning to set up the next session. The first move in the stalled talks, which began in November, came from the players.

The owners countered with one of their own. Both offers sought to find common ground on the issue of pension money. Neither side would move for compromise on the issue of salary arbitration. Donald Fehr. acting executive director of the Players Association, said players would come down from their demand for $60 million a year in pension money if the owners would drop their demand that players have three years of major league experience before taking salary disputes to arbitration.

Players now only need two years experience. salary arbitration extension be dropped "was something we cannot accept." Fehr said the players' proposed concession "constitutes our best shot at coming to an agreement" and would save the clubs "tens and tens of millions of dollars." The players coupled their offer to yield on the one third formula with the requirement that the money not put into the players' benefit plan be directed to clubs suffering losses. The owners also addressed the pension contribution in their new proposal, a plan to tie the size of the contribution to annual revenues of the industry, with a floor set at the previous amount paid to players $15.5 million. MacPhail said a ceiling limit was also included. He would not specify the amount.

But the owners' proposal was also tied to the expansion of salary arbitration to three years and the players rejected it. MacPhail repeated his often stated view that neither side wants a strike but that the owners are insistent on finding a way to slow down player salary increases. He said the owners were asking only to modify not abolish salary arbitration and considered their proposal for three-year eligiblity to be not as "tough" on the players as the owners' previous salary cap plan. That plan would limit clubs' ability to sign free' agents. The new proposals came about two hours' after Ueberroth scolded both sides on nation- al television in an effort to turn up the pressure for a settlement.

"There are 30 million fans affected." he. said. "It would be unconscionable, in my opinion, to have the baseball public faced with the third strike in five years. That just' is not right, and I think both sides know that" and that's why I'm going to be a little bit' optimistic. I may be wrong.

I'm wrong more than I'm right these days. But I think they'll' do their job." Fehr. who appeared on ABC TV's "This' Week With David didn't sound quite as optimistic as Ueberroth. "I become increasingly pessimistic with each passing hour as we get towards the: deadline." he said. "However.

I know that far) more difficult issues have been settled in-other situations in shorter periods of time." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL New York Baseball players budged on the issue of pension money Sunday in the first compromise move made by either side since bargaining began nine months ago. but owners rejected the proposal as time slipped away. "It was a good meeting, but we are running out of time, and I can't tell you we are closer to an agreement." said Lee Mac-Phail. head of the owners' negotiating team at the end of a Vh hour meeting. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, appearing on two nationally televised talk shows, scolded each side, saying a strike would be "unconscionable." "We can't allow" a relatively small number of players and owners "to shut down the national pastime." said Ueberroth.

"This is the year of the records, and I want it to be that not the year of the strike." he added, pointing toward Pete Rose's bid to surpass Ty Cobb's all time hit mark and Sunday's efforts by Chicago's Tom Seaver and California's Rod Carew. Seaver defeated New York. 4 1. to win his 300th game while Carew rapped out a single in the "We can't allow a relatively small number of players and owners to shut down the national pastime." Peter Ueberroth. Fehr would not specify how much pension money players would settle for.

but the offer marked the first time players have dropped their insistence that the owners' contribution to the benefit plan be pegged to one third of national television contracts. The one-third formula has been used for 18 years. The $60 million demand is one-third of television revenues, which average $180 million a year. The players oppose the owners' arbitration offer because they fear it would drastically reduce salaries for second and third year players. The owners rejected the players' proposal without even hearing what the players would settle for.

"As of now. they haven't even been sufficiently interested to ask me the magnitude of the concession." Fehr said. MacPhail said the suggestion that the- Villeneuve is CART winner Bigelow harvest caps of gold White 'River Park STATE GAMES termed a "very satisfying" third place. Bobby Rahal wound up fourth, followed by Emerson Fittipaldi. Arie Luyendyk, Al Unser Sr.

and Raul Boescl. Villeneuve. the fourth fastest qualifier, was also helped by the variety of problems encountered by the fastest cars in the field. Polesitter Danny Sullivan dashed into the early lead and held it for 13 laps until No. 3 qualifier Roberto Moreno overtook the 1985 Indy 500 champion to lead for three laps.

Sullivan pitted without incident on the 15th lap and Moreno went in on the 16th. Problems removing Moreno's left front tire resulted in a 44 second pit stop and allowed Al Unser Jr. to take over a lead he held for 20 laps. Sullivan remained second behind Unser until lap 20. when Sullivan broke his throttle, coasted to a stop at the bottom of the hill leading up to the pit area, and needed a tow to get back to his crew.

Sullivan lost seven laps and all hope of winning while the Penske Miller American scavenged another throttle pedal from its spare car and made the necessary repairs. See VILLENEUVE, Page 22 By KURT FREUDENTHAL STAR STAFF WRITER When word spread that Fort Wayne's Steve Bigelow was seeded first in 10 swimming events for the White River Park Slate Games, there were many skeptics. After all. they reasoned, there's little swimming in the Summit City; no high school program at all. for instance.

By midday Sunday, however. 14 year-old Steve Bigelow was the toast of the town and the sensation of Edition III of these State Games, which are now history. Last year he won three golds in this summer sports festival for Hoo-sicrs of all ages. He returned this weekend just "trying to do my best in every event." As swimming and the dozen other sports concluded, a smiling but slightly tired Steve Bigelow had 10 gold medals draped around his neck. Nobody had ever won more than seven golds in these games Koko-mo gymnast Dan Clarke did it last year at age 12.

Bigelow. a straight A student who enters high school in a few weeks, had seven golds in the first two days of aquatics competition in By BOB WALTERS STAR STAFF WRITER Elkhart Lake. Wis. It wasn't that the car went so fast, it was how fast the car was able to stop that gave Jacques Villeneuve his first Championship Auto Racing Teams' victory. Villeneuve.

the Canadian road course virtuoso who had so much trouble on the Indianapolis oval this year, won the Provimi Veal 200 Sunday over a field that was admittedly faster than his Canadian Tire March 85C. "I knew wc were giving away 10 miles an hour on the straightways." Villeneuve said. "But our car is super good on deep braking. I don't know if any other cars can brake as well as we do." That ability to spend more time on the throttle and less time on the brake on the four mile. 14 turn Road America course made the difference, lie took the lead in intermittent rain on the 37th of 50 laps and held it the rest of the way.

Michael Andretti took second place in the Kraco Stereo March and Alan Jones, racing for the first time in Indy cars while subbing for the injured Mario Andretti in the Beatrice Lola, captured what he the Natatonum at IUPUI. He start-; ed Sunday morning by winning theJ 200-meter backstroke in 221 31 for his eighth gold, then added the 100 freestyle in 59.56 and capped his amazing meet by winning the 200 butterfly in 227.58. In the process, he set six and personal records and only in Saturday's 50 freestyle was he pushed. "That's not my best event. I nr more of a distance swimmer." he apologized.

His coach. Dave Gibson, told him to do "the best you can." BuK not even Bigelow. who swims See BIGELOW Tage 21 STAR STAFF PHOTO FRANK ESPICH Steve Bigelow Is congratulated by his mother, Diane, after winning 10th gold medal during White River Park State Games. his.